Lord of Misrule (1996 TV Movie)
Richard Wilson: Bill Webster
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Quotes
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Bill Webster : Do you remember, during the Thatcher-Heath contest, when we were in bed, back at your place, with a magnum of champagne, going at it hammer and tongs, when who should ring but dear old Brian Redhead to do your radio interview. You did very well, considering.
Shirley : Probably the only in-flagrante radio interview in the history of politics.
Bill Webster : Actually no. *I* did one during the Callaghan vote of confidence. I came like the clappers just as I was saying the words "Margaret Thatcher". Wrecked my sex-life for years.
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[Emma has just arrived in an open-top yellow VW Beetle; Bill looks out of the window at it]
Bill Webster : Is that your car out there? You look like something out of a tampon ad.
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[Bill looks at a framed photograph of himself in ceremonial regalia standing next to the Queen]
Bill Webster : I rather think I had the nicer frock, don't you?
Ethel : [to Emma] One more year as Lord Chancellor and he'd have got to keep the wig.
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[Bill is phoning his friends, begging to borrow some money from them; they all come up with excuses or tell him to sod off]
Bill Webster : [to Emma] If you want to get rid of someone, d'you know what you do? Lend them some money and you'll never ever hear from them again.
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[the Prime Minister and a journalist are wrestling in a duckpond in Bill Webster's garden, fighting each other to take possession of a briefcase containing a bribe. Shirley appears at Bill's side]
Bill Webster : Shirley!
Emma : Aren't you...?
Shirley : I'll kiss babies for my party. I'll admire pigs. I'll even be nice to Michael Portillo. But I draw the line at mud wrestling.
